PHOTOGRAPHIC SILVER HALIDE EMULSION COMPRISING EPITAXIAL COMPOSITE SILVER HALIDE CRYSTALS, SILVER IODOBROMIDE EMULSION AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME

摘要

There are provided a photographic silver halide emulsion which comprises composite silver halide crystals consisting essentially of multi-faceted silver iodobromide crystals containing 15-40 mole % of silver iodide and silver halide crystals containing not more than 10 mole % of silver iodide, said silver halide crystals being combined as epitaxial silver halide crystals with said multi-faceted silver iodobromide crystals, at least half of the facetes of said multi-faceted crystals being substantially free of said epitaxial crystals and the amount of said epitaxial crystals being limited to not more than 75 mole % based on the total silver halide forming said composite crystals, a silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains consisting essentially of silver iodobromide containing 15-40 mole % of silver iodide substantially homogeneously distributed therein, and a process for preparing the same.